JASPERREPORTS® SERVER COMMUNITY

RELEASE NOTES
RELEASE 7.1

http://www.jaspersoft.com
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This is version 0518-JSO71-33 of the JasperReports Server Community Release Notes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Introduction 5
Chapter 2 What's New 7
2.1 Version 7.1.0 7
Chapter 3 Installation and Basic Usage 11
3.1 Installation 11
3.1.1 Binary Installer 11
3.1.2 War File Distribution ZIP js-install Script Installation 11
3.2 Login 12
3.3 Starting and Stopping 13
3.3.1 Windows 13
3.3.2 Linux 13
3.3.3 Mac OS X 13
Chapter 4 Upgrade Notes 15
4.1 Introduction 15
4.2 Database Changes 16
4.3 Upgrade from 6.4.x to 7.1.0 16
4.4 Upgrade from Older Versions 16
4.5 Important Upgrade Information 17
Chapter 5 Known Issues 19
5.1 Current Known Issues 19
5.2 Known Issues Addressed in this Release 20
Chapter 6 Release Distributions 21
6.1 Installation Executables 21
6.1.1 Operating Systems 21
6.1.2 Components in the Installer 21
6.2 WAR File Binary Distributions 22
6.2.1 Java Virtual Machines 22
6.2.2 Application Servers 22
6.2.3 Database Servers 22

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CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
JasperReports® Server Community Project is a high-performance standalone or embeddable Business
Intelligence (BI) platform that provides rich reporting and integrated in-memory analysis capabilities. In
addition, Jaspersoft® OLAP provides data analysis running on the same shared BI platform.
These release notes describe the installation and available functionality at a high level; for details, see the
documentation, which is available at:
• http://community.jaspersoft.com/documentation
• https://docs.tibco.com
• <js-install-ce>/docs (after installation)
In particular, see the JasperReports Server Installation Guide for instructions about running the installer,
creating and updating the database, and deploying the WAR file; see the JasperReports Server Upgrade Guide
for instructions on upgrading from previous versions.

JasperReports Server is governed by a License Agreement, the text of which is found at <js-
install>/Jaspersoft-Subscription-Services-Agreement.txt. Please read it before you login to JasperReports
Server for the first time. If you installed the server using an installer binary (rather than deploying a WAR
file), you have already agreed to this license.

These release notes include the following:

• What's New
• Installation and Basic Usage
• Upgrade Notes
• Known Issues
• Release Distributions
• End of Support Notices

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CHAPTER 2 WHAT'S NEW
This section describes new features introduced in the Jaspersoft BI Suite Version 7 release. For information
regarding features added to Version 6 releases, see the latest 6.4.x release notes.

2.1 Version 7.1.0

JasperReports Server 7.1.0 includes these improvements:
• Visualize.js Ad Hoc View Support. Visualize.js provides new building blocks to embed Ad Hoc views,
helping application developers build modern, immersive experiences. This release includes:
• A frozen heading pane and infinite scrolling for table and crosstab components; this can greatly
improve performance when viewing large result sets.
• CSS inheritance can define crosstab and table styling.
• The ability to capture attributes about table, crosstab, and chart components for use in hyperlinks.
• Object properties that help developers build their own user interfaces for selecting visualization types.
• Parameter and parameter value calls that enable dynamic view updates and custom filter controls in the
surrounding application.

OLAP Data Sources are not supported by Ad Hoc views in Visualize.js.

• Ad Hoc Views. Ad Hoc views and reports now offer:

• Ad Hoc View Referential Integrity - When items from a Domain are used in a dependent Ad Hoc view,
removing the items from the Domain now returns an error message when editing the Ad Hoc view.
You're given the option to remove the missing items from the Ad Hoc view to continue using it. The
removed items no longer appear in the Data Source Selection panel.
• Time Balance Calculations. The ability to define basic Time Balance properties on measures, providing
greater control of time series aggregate data.
By default, all data are aggregated by summing time series values. New options let the user calculate
aggregate time values by taking the first or last values of a time series. This benefits cases where
opening and ending balance values (such as Inventory and Cash Balances) are measured. These options
can change the totals to the sum of the numeric data for a period of time, as well as an average of the
numeric values, the first numeric value entered for the period, and the last numeric value entered for the
period.
• Grouping by Day of the Week. There is a new option for grouping time series data into Day of Week.

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• Jaspersoft Studio. Several new features are available in our report designer:
• Spotfire (Version 7.5+) Infolink support. The data adapter for connecting to a Spotfire instance uses the
latest public Spotfire API. Report developer create content from Spotfire data.
• Support for properties in datasets and query executers. Better support for fields and parameters in the
Dataset and Query dialog, including support for field properties on the Fields tab and show and hide
built-in parameters and display, create, and edit parameter properties on the Parameters tab. This lets
you configure your fields and parameters directly in the Dataset and Query dialog.
• Data adapters that connect to a web service. You can now create data adapters that connect to a web
service. You configure these data adapters in the data adapter dialog. When you use this type of data
adapter in a report, you can access them in the Dataset and Query dialog: you can auto-discover fields
from a node you enter in the query dialog and view and manage HTTP parameters on the Data Adapter
tab.
• Enhanced Properties UI. The advanced properties dialog now displays a searchable list of available
properties. You can create expressions, toggle the view to the old Properties dialog, and add properties
for your custom classes. Most elements now support expressions in properties.
• Support for Data Snapshots. Jaspersoft Studio now lets you create a JasperReports data snapshot, which
contains a sample dataset that contains all the data necessary to run the report. Storing the data for a
report makes it easier to develop reports while offline or to share a functional report with other
developers working on the report design.
• New Platforms. Components included in the installer have been updated to:
• PostgreSQL 9.3.20
• Tomcat 8.5.30
• Oracle JDK 8 version 1.8.0_151 (8u151)
• Spring Framework 3.2.18
• New Third-party Software Support. This release adds support for Oracle 12c as a host for the
JasperReports Server repository and WebLogic 12.2.1 as the application server.
You can still create reports and connect to the latest JasperReports Server with previous versions of
Jaspersoft Studio.
• Security Improvement. JasperReports Server implements a new mechanism to protect against clickjacking
attacks. To enable this mechanism, edit a configuration file.

1. Using a text editor, open the applicationContext-security-web.xml file (found in <js-install>\apache-

tomcat\webapps\jasperserver-pro\WEB-INF).
2. Locate the antiClickJackingEnabled property in the webAppSecurityFilter bean, and set it to
true. Setting this property to true instructs JasperReports Server to include an X-Frame-Options header
in every response.
3. You can also set the antiClickJackingOption property to control the header value. Valid values
are:
• DENY - JasperReports Server doesn't load into any iframe.
• SAMEORIGIN - JasperReports Server only loads into an iframe on a page in the same domain as
JasperReports Server.
• ALLOW-FROM - JasperReports Server only loads in a frame on a page specified in
antiClickJackingUri property.
4. If you set the antiClickJackingOption property to ALLOW-FROM, also set the antiClickJackingUri
property to a valid URI.
5. Save the file and restart the server.

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If you use iframes to embed JasperReports Server (including use of Visualize.js), set the
antiClickJackingOption to either SAMEORIGIN (if the embedding host is on the same domain as
JasperReports Server) or ALLOW-FROM (if the embedding host is on a different domain than
JasperReports Server). If you use ALLOW-FROM, also set the antiClickJackingUri property.

Clickjack protection doesn't support cases in which multiple domains embed JasperReports Server.

• Directory Access Control. A new option can deny access to directories in the file system of the
JasperReports Server host using the ResourceForwardingServlet servlet. The servlet forwards requests
from, for example, /runtime/<hex-code>/<my-resource> to the /<my-resource> URL to handle
browser caching.
Access to the WEB-INF and META-INF directories is always denied. In some circumstances, you may want
to deny access to other directories. For example, if you restrict access to certain directories using the
security-constraint tag in web.xml, also restrict access to those directories using the
forwardForbiddenDirectories parameter of the ResourceForwardingServlet servlet. To do so, edit a
configuration file.

1. Using a text editor, open the web.xml file (found in <js-install>\apache-tomcat\webapps\jasperserver-

ce\WEB-INF).
2. Locate the init-param section of the ResourceForwardingServlet servlet.
3. In the param-value section of the forwardForbiddenDirectories parameter, enter a comma-
separated list of directories that JasperReports Server users shouldn't be able to access. This parameter
can only list directories under the jasperserver-ce web application.
For example:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>ResourceForwardingServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.war.ResourceForwardingServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>forwardForbiddenDirectories</param-name>
<param-value>jpivot,fusion,wcf</param-value>
<!-- Comma separated list of any additional directories
(besides WEB-INF, META-INF) that the access is forbidden to-->
</init-param>

4. Save the file and restart the server.

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CHAPTER 3 INSTALLATION AND BASIC USAGE
This section includes:
• Installation
• Login
• Starting and Stopping

3.1 Installation
You can install JasperReports Server either by running an executable installer or deploying a WAR file. For
evaluations, we recommend you use the installer; for most production instances, we recommend you use the
WAR file. Both the executable and the WAR file are available from the Jaspersoft community site
(http://community.jaspersoft.com); download:
• TIB_js-jrs-cp_7.1.0_<osType>-<arch>.<ext>
• TIB_js-jrs-cp_7.1.0_bin.zip
For more information, see the installation guide, which is found at <js-install-ce>/docs/JasperReports-Server-CP-
Install-Guide.pdf.

3.1.1 Binary Installer

To install JasperReports Server, you can use the binary installer, which is available for Windows, Linux, and
Mac: TIB_js-jrs-cp_7.1.0_installer-<osType>-<arch>.<ext>
Double-click the installer and accept the default installation type to create a standard installation. Select the
custom installation type to configure your instance to specify the application server and RDBMS to use, among
other options. The installer can also be run from the command line.

3.1.2 War File Distribution ZIP js-install Script Installation

You can use the js-install command-line shell scripts if you are installing to the third-party products listed in
6.2, “WAR File Binary Distributions,” on page 22. The scripts are found in this WAR file Distribution ZIP
file: TIB_js-jrs-cp_7.1.0_bin.zip.

To install:
1. Go to the buildomatic folder, create and edit a default_master.properties file, and run js-install-ce.sh/bat:

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cd <js-install>/buildomatic
cp sample_conf/<dbType>_master.properties default_master.properties

2. Using a text editor, edit default_master.properties to add your application server and database server
properties.

./js-install.sh (or js-install.bat)

3. Then change the JAVA_OPT memory options for your application server following instructions from the
installation guide. For example, under Linux with Tomcat running on JDK 1.8, add the following to the top
of the <tomcat>/bin/setclasspath.sh file:

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xms1024m -Xmx2048m"

export JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Xss2m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled"

4. Next, copy your jasperserver.license to your application server user's home folder:

cp <js-install>/jasperserver.license <path-to-home-folder>

3.2 Login
To login after installation, use the following URL:
http://<hostname>:8080/jasperserver

These users are created during installation:

Default User Password

Always created

jasperadmin jasperadmin

If you install the sample data, these users are also created:

Sample User Password

joeuser joeuser

For security reasons, always change the default passwords immediately after installing JasperReports
Server.

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3.3 Starting and Stopping

This section describes how to start and stop the server if you installed using the binary installer. If you used
another installation method, see the JasperReports Server Installation Guide.

3.3.1 Windows
You can start and stop from the Windows menu: click Programs > JasperReports Server 7.1.0 CP > Start
and Stop > Start Service or Stop Service.

3.3.2 Linux
You can start and stop from the command line:
./<js-install>/ctlscript.sh (start|stop)

3.3.3 Mac OS X
From Finder, double-click the start, stop, or login apps:
/Applications/jasperreports-server-cp-7.1.0/jasperServerStart.app
/Applications/jasperreports-server-cp-7.1.0/jasperServerStop.app
/Applications/jasperreports-server-cp-7.1.0/jasperServerLogin.app

Alternatively, you can start/stop from the OS X command line:

./<js-install>/ctlscript.sh (start|stop)

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CHAPTER 4 UPGRADE NOTES
This section includes:
• Introduction
• Database Changes
• Upgrade from 6.4.x to 7.1.0
• Upgrade from Older Versions
• Important Upgrade Information

4.1 Introduction
Your current version determines your upgrade path:

Figure 4-1 Paths for Upgrading to Version 7

You can upgrade directly to 7.1.0 if your instance is one of the following:

6.0.x 6.1.x 6.2.x 6.3.x 6.4.x

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If your instance is one of the older versions listed below, you must first upgrade to the latest version of 6.4.x
before upgrading to 7.1.0:

Version 5 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.5 5.6.x

Version 4 4.0 4.1 4.2.x 4.5.x 4.7.x

For information about upgrading to 6.4.x, please see its release notes.
To upgrade, start with the WAR File Distribution ZIP: TIB_js-jrs-cp_7.1.0_bin.zip
Downloaded it from the Jaspersoft community site (http://community.jaspersoft.com).
The recommended upgrade procedures are fully described in the JasperReports Server Upgrade Guide.

If you are upgrading from certain versions of JasperReports Server, such as 6.0.1, 6.1, or 6.2.0, the
upgrade involves substantial changes that may require you to plan and prepare beforehand. See the
JasperReports Server Upgrade Guide for advice regarding these important considerations. Also, see 4.5,
“Important Upgrade Information,” on page 17.

4.2 Database Changes

Between certain versions of the server, we have changed the repository database in order to add new
functionality. There are changes between 6.4.x and 7.1.
For information on database changes in previous releases, please see the latest 6.4.x release notes.

4.3 Upgrade from 6.4.x to 7.1.0

The recommended procedure for upgrading from 6.4.x is described in Chapter 3 of the JasperReports Server
Upgrade Guide. Run this procedure from the command line. In summary:
1. Copy the properties file:

cd <unpacked-dir>/buildomatic
cp sample_conf/<dbType>_master.properties default_master.properties

2. Using a text editor, edit default_master.properties to add your application server and database server
properties.
3. Run the install .sh or .bat file:

./js-upgrade-samedb-ce.sh

4.4 Upgrade from Older Versions

This upgrade procedure lets you upgrade from JasperReports Server versions 6.0.x through 6.3.x. The
recommended procedure is described in Chapter 4 of the JasperReports Server Upgrade Guide. This procedure
is run from the command line. In summary:

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1. Export your existing JasperReports Server repository data, either using the buildomatic/js-export.sh/bat
command (for example, ./js-export-ce.sh --everything --output-zip my-export.zip), or by
exporting directly from the web UI).
2. Change directories to the buildomatic directory (for example, cd <unpacked-dir>/buildomatic).
3. Copy the master properties file (for example, cp sample_conf/<dbType>_master.properties default_
master.properties).
4. Edit the default_master.properties file to add your application server and database properties (for example,
./js-upgrade-newdb-ce.sh <path>/my-export.zip, or /.js-upgrade-newdb-ce.bat <path>/my-
export.zip).

4.5 Important Upgrade Information

This section describes special upgrade considerations for moving to this release.
For additional information on planning for your upgrade, see the JasperReports Server Upgrade Guide.
• Changes in the 7.1 Release. The layout of the login page changed in JasperReports Server 7.1. There were
no changes to the CSS classes, but some default values were changed. If you have customized the login
page, test your customizations to ensure they have the desired effect in 7.1, and make any necessary
changes.
If you haven't customized the login page, this change doesn't affect you.
• Changes in the Version 6 Releases. JasperReports Server Version 6 releases included many changes that
may impact the upgrade steps in unexpected ways. We made such changes in 6.0.x, 6.1.x, 6.2.x, and 6.4.x.
For example, changes in 6.2.1 replaced the drivers used by Impala and Simba data sources. If you used the
older drivers, you must take these additional steps; if you didn't use those drivers, you don't.
For more information about considerations when upgrading to version 7, please refer to the latest 6.4.x
release notes. For details, see the upgrade guide for the release that impacts your upgrade path.

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CHAPTER 5 KNOWN ISSUES
This section describes issues you may need to be aware of, including:
• Current Known Issues
• Known Issues Addressed in this Release
For information regarding known issues found or addressed in Version 5 releases, see the 5.6.1 release notes.

5.1 Current Known Issues

We're aware of these issues in this release of JasperReports Server:
• JA-926 (was 35986): If you use Jaspersoft OLAP's XML/A functionality to connect to a remote
JasperReports Server's XML/A sources, you must take additional steps to complete your upgrade if your
previous version was 5.2 or earlier. You must redefine your XML/A connections to specify the connection
string in a new way. For example, in previous versions, the Foodmart XML/A connection specified:

Provider=Mondrian;DataSource=Foodmart

In more recent versions, the DataSource portion of the connection string is always JRS when the remote
provider is JasperReports Server. For example:

Provider=Mondrian;DataSource=JRS

Note that the final steps in this section, those regarding java.io.FilePermission, can be ignored.
• JRS-15525: In the course of testing Wildfly 8.1 with this version of JasperReports Server, we discovered
issues that prevented the server from starting. Because the issues aren't present in Wildfly 8.2, which we
already support, we have ended support for Wildfly 8.1.
• JRS-15530: The UI Samples page for administrators, available in previous releases, has been removed.
When testing themes and other cosmetic changes or customizations to the web UI, please navigate to a web
page with the UI component you're changing rather than viewing the samples page. We may address this
issue in a subsequent release.
• JS-20916 (was 32168): Though we don't strictly support the practice, in previous versions of JasperReports
Server, it was possible to create a clone install in JBoss by copying an existing JasperReports Server WAR
file and deploying it to a new JBoss instance. Though Jaspersoft supports JBoss EAP6, we uncovered issues
with clone installs. For more information, see this article on our Community website.

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• JS-30583 (was 43387): We are aware of significant performance issues when the server is run in certain
versions of Tomcat. We recommend 8.5.30 or later.

5.2 Known Issues Addressed in this Release

These defects, which were listed in the release notes of previous versions, were resolved in this release:
• JRL-30: When JasperReports Server is hosted under certain combinations of Windows and application
servers (such as WildFly 9 on Windows 8.1 or Tomcat 8 on Windows 10), the server becomes unresponsive
when a user exports a report; the server responds again once the export completes. We added instructions
for working around this problem to the JasperReports Server Administrator Guide.
• JRS-11883: Some application servers, such as Tomcat, are ending their support of the pipe character (|),
which delimits a user's name and organization when they are passed as a URL to the server; the application
server returns an illegal character error. Our examples and documentation now use %7c instead of pipe.
For example, instead of:

homeFlow&j_username=jasperadmin|organization_1

we now use:

homeFlow&j_username=jasperadmin%7Corganization_1

• JRS-15389: This Tomcat configuration, which was documented as optional, is required:

grant codeBase "file:/groovy/script" {

permission java.io.FilePermission
"${catalina.home}${file.separator}webapps${file.separator}jasperserver-pro${file.separator}WEB-
INF${file.separator}classes${file.separator}-", "read";
permission java.io.FilePermission
"${catalina.home}${file.separator}webapps${file.separator}jasperserver-pro${file.separator}WEB-
INF${file.separator}lib${file.separator}*", "read";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "groovy.use.classvalue", "read";
};

Note that the related JasperReports Server documentation has been corrected and moved from the
JasperReports Server Security Guide to the JasperReports Server Installation Guide.

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CHAPTER 6 RELEASE DISTRIBUTIONS
This section describes:
• Installation Executables
• WAR File Binary Distributions
For more information, see the Jaspersoft Platform Support document, which is available from the Jaspersoft
community site (http://community.jaspersoft.com).

6.1 Installation Executables

The provided executables support various operating systems and install the required components.

6.1.1 Operating Systems

The installers are available for 64-bit versions of these operating systems:

Linux Installer Windows Installer Mac OS X Installer Other

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.1, 6.4, 6.6, and 7.1
• Novell SUSE Linux
Enterprise 12.1
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and
17.04
• Debian 8 and 9
• Fedora 22
• CentOS 6.4 and 7
• Windows Vista (SP2) • Mountain Lion • Solaris SPARC 10
• Windows 2008 R1 (10.8) and 11
and R2 • Maverick (10.9) • HP-UX 11.23 and
• Windows 7 (SP1) • Yosemite (10.10.1) 11.31
• Windows 8 and 8.1 • El Capitan (10.11) • FreeBSD 8.1 and
• Windows 10 • Sierra (10.12) 10.2
• Windows Server • IBM AIX 7.2
2012 and 2016

6.1.2 Components in the Installer

The executable installers contain all the components needed to run the JasperReports Server web application,
including:
• Apache Tomcat 8.5.30
• PostgreSQL 9.3.20

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• Oracle JDK 8 version 1.8.0_151 (8u151)

• JasperReports Server Web Application (WAR) file
• PhantomJS 2.1.1

During installation, you can choose whether to use an existing instance of Tomcat or create a new one to
host JasperReports Server. Similarly, you can choose whether to use an existing instance of PostgeSQL
or create a new one. These choices are entirely independent; you can use either an existing instance or
create a new instance of either.

6.2 WAR File Binary Distributions

The WAR File Binary Distribution contains sample configurations and repository database setup scripts for the
following applications.

6.2.1 Java Virtual Machines

• Oracle JDK 1.8
• OpenJDK 1.8
• IBM JDK 1.8

Only 64-bit JDKs are supported.

6.2.2 Application Servers

• Apache Tomcat 8.0.48 through 8.5.30 (we recommend 8.5.30)
• GlassFish 4.1.2
• JBoss EAP 6.4 and 7.0

6.2.3 Database Servers

• PostgreSQL 9.3, 9.4, 9.5, and 9.6
• MySQL 5.5, 5.6, and 5.7

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